Knesset MCP

🚀 Knesset MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to access the legislative information API of the Knesset. This server provides a standard interface for AI applications (such as Claude) to query and interact with Knesset data.

🚀 Quick Start

The Knesset MCP Server offers a standardized way for AI applications to interact with the legislative data of the Knesset. It simplifies the process of querying and analyzing various aspects of parliamentary information.

✨ Features

Resources

• Access parliamentary information through URI-based resources:
  • Retrieve committee information by Knesset number.
  • Obtain committee meeting information.
  • Query bills by type (private, government, committee).
  • Get information about Knesset members.

Tools

• Execute specific functions to obtain information:
  • Get bill information by ID.
  • Search for bills based on keywords.
  • Retrieve committee information.
  • Get detailed information about Knesset members.
  • Obtain the current Knesset number.

Prompt Templates

• Pre-defined prompts for common analysis tasks:
  • Analyze the legislative process.
  • Search for legislation related to specific topics.
  • Analyze the voting records of Knesset members.

📦 Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/knesset-mcp-server.git
cd knesset-mcp-server

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

💻 Usage Examples

Running the Server

# Start the server
npm start

Integrating with Claude Desktop

1. Ensure that Claude Desktop is installed.
2. Edit your Claude Desktop configuration file (located at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "knesset": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/knesset-mcp-server/build/knesset-mcp-server.js"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop.
4. Now, the Knesset MCP tools will be available in Claude.

📚 Documentation

API Details

This server connects to the Knesset's OData API, located at: http://knesset.gov.il/Odata/ParliamentInfo.svc

Resource URIs

• knesset://committees/{knessetNum} - Retrieve committee information by Knesset number.
• knesset://committee/{committeeId}/sessions - Obtain meeting information for a specific committee.
• knesset://bills/{billType} - Query bills by type (private, government, committee).
• knesset://knesset-members/{knessetNum} - Get information about Knesset members for a specific Knesset.

Tools

• get-bill-info - Get detailed information about a specific bill by ID.
• search-bills-by-name - Search for bills by keywords in the bill name.
• get-committee-info - Retrieve information about a specific committee by ID.
• get-knesset-member - Get information about a specific Knesset member by ID.
• get-current-knesset-number - Obtain the current Knesset number.

Prompt Templates

• analyze-legislation-process - Analyze the legislative process of a bill.
• search-related-legislation - Search for legislation related to specific topics.
• mk-voting-record - Analyze the voting records of Knesset members.

🔧 Technical Details

Development

To run the server in development mode:

npm run dev

Testing

To test your MCP server, you can use MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node build/index.js

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.